They also include Apple's new Firewire 800 technology, which allows a connection speed of up 800 megabits per second to peripherals like hard drives, video cameras and other computers.

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Of course, it would be silly to assume that the minds at Microsoft and Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) aren't hammering out a technology to blow by FireWire.

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